Architecture in Britain: the Middle Ages / Geoffrey Webb.

Main entry:

Webb, Geoffrey.

Title & Author:

Architecture in Britain: the Middle Ages / Geoffrey Webb.

Edition:

[Second edition]

Publication:

Baltimore : Penguin Books [1965]

Description:

xxi, 234 pages : illustrations (one color) ; 27 cm

Series:

The Pelican history of art, Z12

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-224).
The earliest churches -- The Carolingian tradition -- Anglo-Norman Romanesque -- Romanesque and early gothic buildings other than churches -- Early gothic -- Developed English gothic -- The decorative consequences of Westminster Abbey -- The genesis of English late medieval style -- Developed gothic buildings other than churches -- The parish church -- The last phase.

Summary:

In selecting the aspects of British medieval architecture for discussion in this book, the author's point of view has been consistently that of the art historian. While fully aware of the great contribution of the nineteenth century scholars to an understanding of Romanesque and Gothic construction, this is a twentieth century approach to the subject. The period covered extends from the seventh century (and the earliest churches) to the sixteenth and the end o the latest and peculiarly English form of Gothic, the Perpendicular. The first appearance of monumental architecture in the great monasteries and cathedrals, the achievements of the later Anglo-Saxon age, the great flowering in the twelfth century, the astonishing precocity of the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, the monastic buildings and great houses are discussed vividly and in detail, and a special chapter is devoted to the revolutionary change in character of the parish church in the thirteenth and later centuries.

Subject:

Architecture Great Britain History.
Architecture, Medieval.
Architecture Grande-Bretagne Histoire.
Architecture médiévale.
Architecture
Great Britain

Form/genre:

History

Added entries:

Pelican history of art ; Z12.

Holdings:

Location: Library study room 22483
Call No.: PO1741 NA963 REF; ID:87-B940
Status: Available

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